Science: To Raise a Pharaoh

Of all the worthy projects it has aided around the world, UNESCO has had few to compare with the one it was busy on last week: the raising of a Pharaoh. It started passing the hat among members of the United Nations to collect $75 million for a daring and imaginative attempt to save the impressive, rock-cut Temple of Abu Simbel near the southern border of Egypt, where for 3,000 years four colossal figures of Pharaoh Ramses II have looked out imperturbably over the Nile. Cut into the living rock are great chambers and corridors decorated with spirited bas-reliefs of Ramses'...

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